Meir Shalev Quotes

• Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.

  Meir Shalev

  Memories, Desire, Stories

  Meir Shalev (2011). “My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir”, p.140, Schocken

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• A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.

  Meir Shalev

  Men, Looks, Littles

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• A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it.

  Meir Shalev

  Home, Wish, Pigeons

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• Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

  Meir Shalev

  Art, Creativity, Science

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